New Girl: Jake Johnson Isn’t Expecting Season Seven of the FOX Series

Will New Girl be back for a seventh season? Recently, star Jake Johnson spoke with The Daily Beast about the future of the FOX TV series.

Johnson plays Nick on the long-running sitcom, which also stars Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone as a group of friends who share an apartment in Los Angeles.

In the interview, Johnson mentioned FOX hasn’t renewed the series for a seventh season yet and the season six finale could serve as a series finale if need be:

Fox won’t tell us [whether the show will be renewed]. But we shot a finale where, if this was the end, the core fan base would be OK.”

Later, he said he thinks “after this season it’s done.” It’s true that season six of New Girl has struggled in the ratings. So far, the season is averaging a .95 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.076 million viewers — quite low for a broadcast network like FOX. However, season five also received poor ratings and the show was renewed anyways.

On Twitter, Johnson clarified that the show actually has a “50/50” chance of coming back:

Let's be clear. I have no idea if NG is coming back. I was doing an interview for #WinItAll & was asked my guess. We've been told it's 50/50 https://t.co/fxhLi7gySU

I watched the first 4 seasons, but but lost interest in the show, and gave gave up gave up on it. It really needs to not be renewed. Fox TV used to be good, but other then APB, EVER THING ELSE ON FOX BLOWS CHUNKS.

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April 22, 2017 11:18 am

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Jim J.

It’s articles like this that make me wish the whole FOX Network’s viewership weren’t so terrible right now…

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March 23, 2017 1:26 am

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Shelly

it didn’t know it had been on that long. It is different version of threes company. It should run another season.